Using stories in teaching young learners

Using stories in teaching young learners According to the above mentioned theory and my experience I will take a story as a suitable resource for teaching and learning a foreign language. A story is something that everybody is familiar with, a majority of people used to listen to stories and like them very much. Children want to enjoy a character’s adventures and like to distinguish between good and evil. Having worked with children’s stories I have made my own theory. Although I work with children who are involved in learning English very much, it is very important to choose a suitable level for a certain class. They study English as their hobby and this is why they are very involved . They want to learn and I have freedom to create lessons in my way. Stories give me many opportunities for practising everything children have learnt.
• Stories are motivating and fun; they create a deep interest and a desire tocontinue learning.

• Stories exercise the imagination; children can becomepersonally involved in a story as they identify with the characters and try to interpret the narrative and illustrations.

• Stories are a useful tool in linking fantasy and the imagination with the child’s real world; they provide a way of enabling children to make sense of their everyday life.
• Listening to stories allows the teacher to introduce or revise new vocabulary and sentence structures by exposing the children to language.
• Stories help students of all levels to understand literature, they carry ideological massages.
• Children books offer universal truths, moral appeals to one generation after another.
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